Since the bombing campaign against ISIS began on September 23rd, the US
has launched about 450 sorties. By contrast, Operation Desert Storm
kicked off with more than 1,000 sorties the first day. Obama's ISIS
strategy is a joke, much like his "coalition."

The Iraqi army is in shambles. If Iraqi soldiers didn't drop their
weapons and run from a much smaller ISIS force, they turned around and
joined them. Qatar won't commit troops to fight ISIS, nor will Jordan,
Saudi Arabia, or the Gulf Emirate states. They have, in fact, been ISIS'
largest supporters, having given millions of dollars and tons of
weaponry to the terrorist army in hopes that they would help overthrow
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Unidentified patriots left a severed
swine head at the entrance of the ‘Greek – Arabic Education and Culture
Center’ in Athens and painted a cross in front of the mosque section of
the building along with statements allegedly insulting to Islam.

“It is… a common practice to view social media as a means to identify
and determine character of a pistol permit applicant, in addition to
other investigatory methods,” the department’s spokesperson told the
applicant. “Typically all we ask is that an applicant access their
account during an interview.”

New
England rum was a valuable commodity to trade African kings for slaves –
one hundred gallons was sufficient to purchase a male slave in the
Guinea trade. Newport, Rhode Island maintained a merchant fleet of 170
vessels in 1750, half of which were engaged exclusively in the slave
trade and formed the basis of that regions financial wealth. The
American South was the recipient, not the originator, of African
slavery.

“The
ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol were deeply involved in the
[transatlantic] slave trade by the early years of the century, and by
the 1760’s the prosperity of Liverpool, whose ships carried more than
half the English part of the trade, was commonly thought to rest on the
slavers.

[The
Northern colonies in America] took to it, and early in the century
Yankee slavers, chiefly operating out of Newport and Bristol in Rhode
Island and in much smaller volume out of Boston, Salem and Providence,
with a sprinkling of vessels out of Portsmouth, New London and New York,
entered the business. In the main, they supplied the West Indies rather
than the mainland; the vast majority of slaves brought to American
shores came in British hulls.

Although
some white men raided and kidnapped blacks along the African coast,
such violence was neither prudent nor necessary. The vast majority of
slaves were bought from native African slavers at or near the West
African coast.

Whites
knew almost nothing about Africa farther than fifty or a hundred miles
into the interior, and for the most part the European trading companies
were content to operate from coastal forts to which efficiently
organized African societies were capable of delivering a steady supply
of slaves.

Africa
had a system or systems of slavery long before white men came to the
Guinea Coast, and had regularly enslaved was captives and criminals.
Once the European trade opened, the profits to be made from a large
external slave market provoked more wars and instigated more rigorous
punishment of crime by native chiefs.

Other
persons sold themselves or their families for food during famine, or
were kidnapped by native gangs. Many native kings ran profitable slave
businesses, and responded eagerly to opportunities for greater profits.
The slave trade became a recognized and entirely legal form of business
in Africa.

Moreover,
the Africans took to guns and gunpowder with a rapidity which, while
lamentable in many respects, was highly protective in others. Africans
had no more impulse toward racial solidarity than Europeans did toward
Christian unity. [African kings could] charge Europeans substantial
rents for permission to build trading forts, yet deny them the power to
dominate any more land than the immediate territories around the forts.

[And
it] was labor, not territory, that the whites wanted from Africa, and
the African kings, through their commission merchants, were usually
pleased to sell laborers, accustomed as they were to selling,
exchanging, and sometimes giving away their own slaves. At the
beginning they probably did not know what they were selling their slaves
into, and in the end apparently did not much care.”

An Army veteran was walking outside with his girlfriend near his home
in Philadelphia on Sunday when all of a sudden a man threatened the
couple with a 13-inch knife. The criminal didn’t know he had several
factors working against him.

Firstly, his would-be “victim,” William Lawler, 38, is an Army
veteran who retired as a lieutenant after serving for over a decade.
That’s strike one. Secondly, he’s a longtime firearms instructor with a
license to carry a concealed 9mm Glock. That’s strike two.

The government watchdog group Judicial Watch
alleged Friday the Obama administration is formulating plans to admit
Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment.

The group, which cited one unidentified source, said the administration
would aim to bring Ebola patients into the United States for treatment
within the first days of diagnosis, and that it’s not clear who’d pay
either for the transportation or treatment.

The group alleged the plan for treatment includes special waivers of
laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens with a
communicable disease; Judicial Watch cited its source saying the
administration has not told Congress about the plan.

“The source is concerned that the proposal is illegal; endangers the
public health and welfare; and should require the approval of Congress,”
Judicial Watch stated.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.